Proposals Youth Advocacy from February, 2013
Pakistan: Citizen Media in Fight Against HIV/AIDS: Making a Difference
It is the time that HIV prevention, care & support programs embrace citizen media strategy to multiply the impact by creating youth force at very grass-root level who can be able to significantly use different tools e.g. blogs, social networking sites, mobile phone, digital storytelling/video etc on a large scale with the objective of increasing awareness & decreasing stigma & discrimination, engaging community members & attracting new resources.
Albania: Youth Community E-Learning Project
The overall objective is that of enhancing education in the local territory of the city of Shkoder in the North of Albania through education and personal development of its young people. Students and young people will ‘knowledge workers’ for the world of work. all source learning activity and instructional strategy can easily be customized to incorporate and reflect the cultural preferences (such as native accents, sounds, images, etc.).
Kenya: Zauti Zetu
Zauti zetu is an online platform for rural youth family in Homa-Bay County,Kenya to share their life experiences and stories, discuss on issues affecting their development, engage in community awareness and services efforts, gather news about occurrences in their surrounding and obtain resources and support on issues of concern to them.
Rwanda: genocide a cause of trafficking and prostitution
1994 in was a genocide against tutsi ,it is a major cause of orphans we have in our country ,and the economy of our country was destroyed by the genocide.therefore we wish to install computer laboratory and internet that will help the youth orphans of the genocide,who have involved in trafficking and prostitution . our project will access information on basic agriculture ,simple income generation activities and prevention traffics & prostitution
Zimbabwe: Youth Social Media Connection Zimbabwe
The project seeks to train youth led organisations in Zimbabwe on how to effectively use technology for their interventions on HIV/AIDS. Young people in Zimbabwe are now hanging out more on social media platforms and organisations need to have the capacity to formulate interventions targeting them in this form of media. At the end of the project youth organisations in Zimbabwe will be able to interact with young people more effectively
Pakistan: Capacity-Building of youth about E-networking through Trainings
The project will provide the peer learning opportunities to local youth and awareness about e-networking, capacity building training will be provided through regular classes at Jaffarabad about usage of internet facilities and raise their voices through connecting with social media like twitter and other social networks. The youngsters will be aware about importance of social media as well about international networks.
Pakistan: Poverty
We are already working with communities at grass rout level and want to share their problems through raise their voice, they haven’t any platform to raise their voice. We to share their own views or bring to light issues important to them and their own communities at local level through photography, writing and blogging.I aim to open up their world to give them hope that the world is bigger than the village. we will support them to do this.
Maldives: Drug Addiction Diaries
To provide a voice to the suffering drug addicts in the nation who are very much stigmatized in the nation, specially in the isolated islands. To provide the public, information about harm reduction & the disease of drug addiction as to reduce the stigma of the public towards the issue…. to make the general public change their perception and start providing help and support to addicts to recover and become productive citizens of the nation.
Ghana: Generations Connect
The GENERATIONS CONNECT project is an initiative through which we want to connect youth groups and empower them to communicate their cause on a broader platform by adopting to modern technology which is a remote to most communities and youth in Ghana. This engagement aims at providing a one-stop point of information and a much needed source for collaboration and exchange of information among actors in the same field. This will be developed
Cameroon: Community Voices for Change
Creating community voices for change (CVC) to train community members especially youth in the use of media tools (social network, blogs and phones) to raise public awareness about social and economic issues affecting them. Youth leaders will be trained using computer and internet facilities by media experts. Training will equip participants with skills to establish local network of support towards policy changes which consider youth opinions.
